DCU SU President Ed Leamy has just declared the result of the DCU referendum on the funding of higher education “null and void”. The option of a “fully free education system” had won the vote. FEE DCU will campaign for the democratic will of students to be respected and for the result to be maintained….
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Live Updates from FEE Galway Occupation
Free Education for Everyone (FEE) Galway have occupied Deputy Brian Walsh’s Constituency office in an action against the raising of student fees and in suport of the public sector strikes in Britain and the North. Click here for the full press release. FEE’s twitter account can be found @feeireland LIVE UPDATES: Final Update:…
FEE GALWAY OCCUPATION
This is only the beginning… Free Education for Everyone (FEE) Galway is currently engaged in an occupation of Deputy Brian Walsh’s Constituency Office to bring awareness to the fact that students will not accept any hike in the Registration Fee, any cut to the maintenance grant or any austerity measures aimed to make the most…
FEE Supports the Strikes
Free Education for Everyone (FEE) QUB extends its unreserved support and solidarity to all striking public sector workers on November 30th . We will be joining strikers tomorrow, and call on all students to do the same. Stand in solidarity with your lecturers by: refusing to attend scab classes and joining picket lines/marches across the…
Statement of Support with USI Occupations
Today, Tuesday the 29th of November, several officers from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) took part in consecutive occupations of two government buildings, that of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation for 15 minutes, and the Department of Social Protection for a longer period. The Free Education for Everyone (FEE) student campaign…
To be a Student and not a Revolutionary is a Contridiction (Thoughts on the USI)
It was Salvador Allende who once said “To be a student and not a revolutionary is a contridiction.” The logic of this statement seems to have been lost on the current bunch of hacks that run our national student’s union, the Union of Students Ireland (USI). Yesterday (29/6/11), their ineptness to lead students in a…
Review: Springtime, the New Student Rebellions
Springtime, the New Student Rebellions (Edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri. Verso.) The autumn and winter of 2010 saw the sudden and dramatic re-emergence of radical student movements, with mass student uprisings taking place across Europe and the United States in opposition to both the austerity measures being levelled against ordinary people as a…
The need for grassroots action: an analysis of USI’s lobbying strategy
Words: Aidan Rowe FEE’s commitment to building a mass activist grassroots student campaign is not some abstract ideological position: it is firmly rooted in a practical understanding of the political situation. Polite lobbying of politicians does not work; it is only through mass grassroots activism that students can build a campaign capable of beating the…
“Outrageous and bizarre” – Dr Paula Gilligan on USI public sector attack
On Saturday 11th December, USI National Council passed a motion allowing the USI leadership to call for the renegotiation of the Croke Park Deal, so that public-sector pay can be reduced. Dr Paula Gilligan, Head of the Department of Humanities in IADT gives her personal opinion on USIs move. ****** This is a really outrageous…
Secondary school students show the way
The above image shows Castlebar students on the march to the office of Beverly Cooper Flynn, Fianna Fail T.D. Do you have images or video footage from the secondary school walkouts in Clondalkin, Castlebar, Derry or Belfast? Do you want to get involved with the FEE campaign? Get in touch with us at stopfees@gmail.com